Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum Highlights A growing literate elite created

A growing literate elite created a demand for both richly decorated prayer books and volumes on secular topics

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Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum Highlights A growing literate elite createdJean Bussire and Birgitta Lindros Wohl In the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum are more than six hundred ancient lamps that span the sixth century BCE to the seventh century CE, most from the Roman Imperial period and largely created in Asia Minor or North Africa. These lamps have much to reveal about life, religion, pottery, and trade in the ancient Graeco Roman world. Most of the Museums lamps have never before been published, and this